What a juice cleanse is *really* like

One Cosmo girl tells all

For the past three days I've woken up fantasising about scrambled eggs. Not Ed Westwick, Marc by Marc handbags or chocolate fondant. A boring plate of freshly cooked, yellow scrambled eggs.

I've not gone mad (much). And I'm not pregnant (I sincerely hope). But I did go for five days without eating this week, so I think we can safely blame that for the egg/recurring dream thing.

After my last blog about Cosmo being the office of diet hell, I decided something needed to be done to give me a kick up the backside. Something drastic which was going to a) give me instant Krispy Kreme blindness b) get fast results and c) get me back on the healthy eating track.

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I talked to Dalton, the founder of Twenty Two Training, about what he recommended. "Three times a year, I do a juice cleanse," he said. "It resets your system, can help you drop weight quickly and really motivates you to stay healthy afterwards."

Dalton is super-fit (this man got Jennifer Lawrence Hunger Games-ready), but even trainers have time off. He recently did a cleanse when he got back from a trip and lost all his holiday weight after doing a five day detox. I figured if it works for him, it's got to work for me.

I signed up for a five day alkaline greens cleanse from Radiance Cleanse on Dalton's recommendation. It promises to help you lose weight, improve your skin, hair and nails, sleep and digestion, and, erm, give you better bowel health (let's not dwell on that, hey?).

It's not cheap (it works out at just over £50 a day), it's not for the faint-hearted (you will basically be off solids for the best part of a week) and it does mean decamping to Social Siberia for a bit (pub? Restaurant? Hell no), but Radiance make cleansing pretty pain-free.

I was given five 500ml vegetable juices and 18 supplements each day – supplies are delivered to you in two batches. Yep, my fridge looked like someone had put Kermit in a blender, but the juices were actually really nice. Honestly, honestly. Who knew courgette, spinach, lemon and pear would be a winning combo?

After the first day, I worried I wouldn't be able to keep it up but, for someone who routinely starts thinking about lunch at 10am, I was really surprised to find that I wasn't hungry once. Even when my dad ate a packet of chocolate biscuits in front of me on Day 3 (nothing like a supportive parent).

By day 4, Mr Suzy was saying my skin looked "all glowy" – massive praise from a boy (I left the flat in a dress which I've worn to death for three years this morning, and he asked if it was new), so I must have been looking better.

On the downside, I was drinking so much herbal tea, water and juice that I was having to wee at least once an hour. I think everyone in Company (who share a bathroom with us) must think I have a serious bladder problem.

Up the upside, by day 6 I stood on the scales and was 10llbs down. Result! So I think that's worth a bit too much toilet time.

Now I'm back on solids and slowly reintroducing protein into my diet. I feel SO much better than I did a week ago – I'm sleeping more soundly, I'm not craving sugar or caffeine and I said no to three cupcake offers yesterday without sobbing.

I've got another 10llbs to go to get back down to my wedding weight, but I reckon I can do it. I've got four weeks until I'm off on holiday and I'm determined that my honeymoon wardrobe will be coming with me.

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